HEALING GARDENS REDEFINING THE PERSPECTIVE OF ROGER ULRICH THEORY

Abstract

The term “healing garden” is often attached to the green spaces in hospitals or any other kind of healthcare facilities that aim to improve health outcomes specifically. These spaces provide a place of rest and refuge promoting healing in patients, families, and staff. According to two leaders in this field, Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, the healing effect comes from the gardens because they enhance relief symptom, stress reduction and improvement in overall sense of wellbeing and hopefulness. The serenity and tranquility of the overall natural ambience plays a pivotal role in absorbing the plethora of worldly alarming psychological and physiological issues that are responsible for disturbing and turbulent lifestyle of general inhabitant of urban setting. The healing gardens acts as “OASIS” within the densely populated physical fabric all around. A survey by Ulrich has shown that patients with views of nature have significantly less post-operative stay times, fewer negative comments from care-givers, less medication use and experienced fewer minor post-operative complications than patients with views of a wall.